\nWe are hiring a PHP Staff Engineer to focus on backend application work and technical leadership while contributing to DevOps, data, and frontend work as necessary. We’re a small team, so the blend will depend on the individual and the project.\n\n\nIdeal candidates will have an incredibly strong Web SaaS background, a decade or two of Web-based professional history, and a deep comfort with PHP. You are consistently assessing whether technical choices are adding or removing system complexity. You enjoy enabling your teammates to do their best work with clear & appropriate feedback, tailored guidance, and thoughtful workload sharing. You are deeply critical of which technical choices and work will have the most meaningful impact on our goals.\n\n\nThis role offers 160K/yr and participation in our ESOP (Employee Stock Option Program) with a 4-year vesting schedule. If you start by 1 April, you’ll be eligible for the company-wide annual 1 July pay raise. If you’re interested in the role but have questions or feedback, please email the hiring manager. No one’s resume will get buried for being critical, it’s kinda the point of the job.\n\n\nWe will accept applications through Friday, 21 February and begin the email screening process as soon as possible. Initial interviews will ideally be scheduled for 24-27 February, and second interviews the week of 10 March. There are two 90-minute interviews (hiring manager + panel) and we request 3 professional references (but let's talk anyway if you have circumstances that make that impossible). We are filling this role ASAP, preferably no later than 1 April. Please note availability concerns in your application! We can be flexible and are happy to accommodate whenever we can. \n\n\nAbout uConnect \n\n\nuConnect is on a mission to help more people realize their potential by improving access to career services for all people - early in their lives and throughout their careers. Focused on the traditional higher education market, uConnect's All-In-One Virtual Career Center is used by a wide range of institutions including UCLA, MIT, and Baton Rouge Community College to radically improve utilization of career services, career readiness and student outcomes.  We're a mission-driven team working in a fun and collaborative culture which puts people first. uConnect is backed by leading technology investors including Growth Street Partners, Strada Education and LearnLaunch.\n\n\n\nCore responsibilities\n* Collaboratively plan, document, and execute complex web application programming tasks. This is foremost an individual contributor role responsible for shipping.\n* Adhere to team coding standards and architectural principles.\n* Demonstrate advanced knowledge of one or more relevant programming languages in day-to-day use.\n* Demonstrate best practices in submitted code.\n* Make informed decisions about what qualifies as in- and out-of-scope for current tasks and communicate those decisions succinctly and thoroughly.\n* Raise concerns, questions, and ambiguities for team discussion; lead consensus-building.\n* Identify risks in current code, environment, and/or process; recommend alternatives.\n* Add automated low-level tests to code as appropriate.\n* Troubleshoot existing code for defects, performance issues, or other unwanted behavior.\n* Take ownership of overall application code base and be accountable for its long-term health, performance, and alignment with team goals.\n* Take on independent investigations or maintenance projects to enable the rest of the team.\n* Take a leadership role in overall technical decisions and direction.\n* Work cross-functionally with Product, Customer Success, and other stakeholders to identify the best outcomes possible given our goals and constraints.\n\n\n\nSecondary responsibilities\n* Assist with support and bug triage.\n* Assist with CI/CD pipeline as necessary.\n* Assist with E2E tests as necessary.\n* Improve application observability with logging and automated alerting.\n* Explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.\n* Guide and mentor other engineers of all levels with their professional growth and learning.\n* Assist with hiring engineers as requested.\n* Investigate new technologies for applicability to current and future engineering challenges.\n* Monitor the broader technology ecosystem for significant changes and brief team.\n* Respond to priority support incidents during off-hours in rare business-critical situations.\n\n\n\nWhat will a typical day look like?\n* Attend daily engineering standup (Mon-Thu). What’s blocking you, and how can you help your teammates? Sometimes we also do work refinement during this time.\n* Meet with stakeholders and peers to understand and prioritize needs.\n* Programming new product features, upgrading existing functionality, and updating dependencies and pipelines.\n* Performing code review async via pull request or synchronously via Zoom.\n* Validating application functionality through the use of both automated and manual testing.\n* Pairing with another engineer to trade experience or collaborate on a particular challenge. (We encourage pairing as needed and it shouldn’t be “never” but there’s no mandate.)\n* Researching tools, patterns and practices relevant to current or future work.\n* Writing internal documentation about technical choices, runbooks, or team practices.\n* Working with your manager to discuss and implement guidance or technical coaching plans for other engineers.\n* On Fridays (or an equivalent amount of time elsewhere in the week at your discretion), you’re encouraged to pursue team-agreed work that isn’t explicitly toward the product roadmap, like tool upgrades or technical research. We are purposefully targeting 20% of capacity toward maintenance work.\n\n\n\nCore skills & experiences (You check most of these boxes)\n* Building and maintaining Web SaaS products for at least 5 years (12+ is ideal).\n* Advanced programming experience in a Web server context, PHP strongly preferred.\n* Programming experience in JavaScript and HTML/CSS.\n* Advanced SQL query authoring and relational database design constraints.\n* Working remotely with a cross-functional team & collaborating with other engineers.\n* Task refinement & scoping, self-organization, and prioritization.\n* Team-based communication (asking for what they need and conveying challenges and timelines proactively), active listening, and consensus building.\n* Giving and receiving constructive and well-communicated code review feedback.\n* Experience with one or more web application frameworks, especially event-based (as in WordPress, not Kafka).\n* Troubleshooting DNS and web request / server response structures.\n* Validating code using test automation (unit or functional/integration).\n* Controlling major sources of application complexity and managing dependencies thoughtfully.\n\n\n\nAccretive skills (We hope you check a few of these boxes)\n* Using, designing, documenting, and building REST APIs.\n* Experience with WordPress (or similar).\n* Experience using caching layers to improve web application performance.\n* Building & improving CI pipelines (we use BitBucket).\n* Evaluating application-level security and remediation of flaws.\n* Evaluating & implementing accessibility requirements.\n* Experience with data pipelines, feed processing, and/or data migrations.\n* Working with Python (used in our data pipeline), data warehouses, and/or data visualization (We use GCP / BigQuery / Looker).\n* Iterative self-directed learning is second nature to you.\n* You’ve read resources or books like Will Larson’s Staff Engineer and are thoughtful about the strategic role of the Staff Engineer in an organization.\n\n\n\nWhy take this role?\n* High impact, high efficiency, sustainable efforts, & minimal politics. Our entire company culture is oriented to winning together, not individual interests.\n* Truly flexible work schedule with consistent effort to minimize meetings and prioritize individual needs. Unlimited PTO, 15 holidays, plus a mostly-shutdown entire final week of the year.\n* Commitment to a healthy engineering culture with a focus on great documentation, team-based work refinement, and clear acceptance criteria. We’re not done improving how we work.\n* We’re not just “committed to diversity”, we have a diverse & inclusive team and continue to iterate on policies that support it.\n* You're aligned with our mission of improving access to career services & employment outcomes for higher education students by supporting their individual needs.\n* Your 5-year plan could involve deepening your technical skills and focusing on impact as a special project “solver”, becoming the technical lead of a second product team as it forms, or transitioning into an engineering management role. (It likely does not involve becoming an overall project “architect” as that is our principal’s primary role.)\n\n\n\nCompensation package\n* $160,000 annual salary (with annual raise 1 July).\n* 4-year vesting stock options\n* Unlimited PTO (you must use at least 3 weeks; 4-6 is normal)\n* Health insurance (Gold PPO) premium 100% covered for employee & 60% for dependents (Dental 75% for employee & 50% for dependents; Vision 75% for employee)\n* 4% 401K contribution (3% full match + 2% half match)\n* $600 annual home office stipend\n* 12 weeks parental leave (after 1 year)\n* Guaranteed remote work policy (there’s no office)\n\n\n\nHiring process\n* Screening over email (call optional)\n* 90-minute alignment interview (Zoom video)\n* 90-minute functional area interview (Zoom video)\n* Pre-offer stage: (1) 60-minute Meet & Greet with CEO (Zoom video), (2) 3 references (preferably all who worked directly with you for 6 months or more; 1 senior to you in your team or reporting chain)\n* Background check (we do not automatically disqualify applicants for non-violent criminal convictions)\n\n\n\nAbout the team\n* We are fully remote, but require employees reside in the continental US or Canada due to time zones & compliance overhead.\n* We employ 7 full-time engineers (Manager, 4 Application, 1 Data, 1 QA Automation) that lean senior (2 staff-level, 3 senior-level, 2 mid-level, 0 entry — yes, that’s the scale). There is 1 product manager (with plans to grow).\n* No engineers have left the company in 3 years. Our principal engineer has been with the company 12 years. \n* We use a Kanban workflow in Jira (“kanban-like” if we’re being pedantic) with clear acceptance criteria and Gherkin for testing criteria.\n* In 2024, half our tickets were in support of our strategic roadmap, 20% were maintenance work, and the rest were requests (support escalations and other non-roadmap work).\n* We primarily build in a WordPress-based monolith with a few ancillary AWS services.\n* We have managed hosting, so there is no on-call rotation, but as a staff engineer you will be on the short-list of emergency technical contacts. (We had zero emergencies in 2024.)\n* Two years ago, we had zero automated tests. Today, we have more than 500 (300 of which are E2E) and will aggressively increase that number this year, focusing on PHP integration tests in a specific section of the product.\n* We’re publishing our interview plan, onboarding impact plan, and performance review criteria for this role. Our small team works best by being engaged, taking ownership, and exercising critical thinking every day. This role is critical to continuing and expanding that strategy, so consider coming to your interviews with good questions.\n* West coasters beware: Standup is 10:30am ET (Mon-Thu; we don’t have standing meetings on Fridays). It is our team’s only standing meeting (besides 1:1s with your manager and monthly All Hands).\n\n\n\nWhat will your 90-day onboard look like?\n* Weeks 1: Meet people, read docs, complete training, set up your localhost, ask questions. We’re not a “commit code on day 1” shop; relax & adapt. Check in with your manager daily.\n* Weeks 2-4: Dig into team’s current problem set and how you can start contributing now, while also learning medium- and long-term goals to start aligning decisions with them. Join the team’s workflow and complete prioritized work. Check in with your manager a few times a week.\n* Months 2-3: Take work that aligns with your learning goals to quickly expand your exposure to various parts of the product and stack. Make strong contributions, but more biased toward learning than highest priority, tapering back toward priority-based work toward the end of 90-days at the pace that makes sense. Choose a longer-term 1:1 pace.\n\n\n\n\n\n$160,000 - $160,000 a year\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, SaaS, Wordpress, Python, Testing, JavaScript, Education, PHP, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nCambridge, MA or Remote

\nWing is hiring elite talent for M32 Labs, an innovative venture-backed company based in Silicon Valley dedicated to building cutting-edge AI-powered products for business clients worldwide. \n\n\nAt M32, we're not just another tech company- we’re creating world-class AI solutions that redefine industries. If you’re looking for a challenging and high-impact engineering role, this is it.\n\n\nWhat it'll be like working at M32:\nMove fast and break things:\nThis is a company with 0 bureaucracy, and maximum impact. We are building world-class products, hiring a world-class team, and putting large resources behind the products you're building. We are looking for engineers who are willing to go above and beyond. Deadlines will be tight, expectations will be high. If you're looking for a standard 9-5 job, this is not the place for you. \nAutonomy & Creativity:\nWe value decision-makers and innovators. You’ll have the control to make both technical and product decisions, and our goal is to let you lead entire product builds.\nExponential Career Growth:\nExceptional performance will be rewarded far beyond normal. If you excel at M32, expect your compensation to double within a year and your role to grow rapidly.\nSmall, Elite Teams:\nYou’ll work in tight-knit teams of 1–3 exceptional engineers to build full products from scratch. Every week will feel like a hackathon!\nHigh Impact:\nYour work will directly influence thousands of users, with immediate deployment and feedback. You’ll never work on insignificant internal tools or tiny features. You will work directly with C-level executives. \nFast track to leadership. \nAre you ambitious AND hard working? We reward that here, promoting top performers to elevated positions quickly, at a faster rate than industry standards. \n\n\n\n\nRequirements:\nBasics\n- Graduated from a university. Preference will be given to graduates of highly competitive institutions or candidates with comparable achievements. Exceptional talent from other backgrounds will also be considered.\n- A high degree of self-motivation, ambition, and the ability to thrive in fast-paced, high-expectation environments.\n- Comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing priorities, and able to deliver results under tight deadlines.\n- Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, databases, and software design.\n- Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems, whether through academic or personal projects, past startups, hackathons, competitive programming, or professional experience.\n\n\nProven Development Experience:\n- Comfortable working with Ubuntu CLI, server setups, and AWS.\n- Experience building backend systems with Python server frameworks like FastAPI, Streamlit, or Flask.\n- Comfortabe deploying code to web environments and API endpoints \n- Comfortable working with websockets, including building real-time applications\n- Comfortable working in environments where Python may be used in conjunction with PHP and/or JavaScript backends \n\n\nExpertise in AI Development:\n- Mastery of Python and AI libraries like LangChain, Phidata, CrewAI, etc.\n- Experience applying LLMs to solve problems (e.g., GPT models, Anthropic models, open-source alternatives).\n- Ability to evaluate and optimize open-source models, understanding their benefits and drawbacks.\n- Experience working with vector databases\n\n\nIntegration & API Experience:\n- Extensive experience working with APIs and external integrations.\n- Experience with Composio is a strong plus.\n\n\nPreferred Skills:\n- Familiarity with Cursor AI or similar tools for rapid development.\n- Experience working in a remote-first setting.\n- Excellent verbal and written communication in English.\n- Strong degree of critical thinking & creativity.\n- Proficiency with Node JS is a plus. \n- Prior experience building full-scale web applications.\n- Experience in the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).\n- Strong proficiency and comfortable working with vanilla PHP and MySQL.\n\n\n\n\nResponsibilities:\n- Architect, build, and deploy AI applications, leveraging integrations, tools, vector databases, and agents.\n- Work independently to lead the development of entire products, from prototype to deployment.\n- Evaluate and integrate the latest AI models to deliver cutting-edge solutions.\n- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, design) to rapidly iterate on ideas.\n- Take ownership of deployments, ensuring products are delivered on time and meet high standards.\n- Review user feedback, product data, problems shared by management and be able to think critically about solutions.\n- Come up with ideas with product team & management. \n\n\n\n\nWorking Location: \nThis will be a remote role.\n\n\n\n\nBenefits: \n- Competitive Pay: Above-market compensation for exceptional talent.\n- Rapid Pay Increases for top performers: For exceptional performance, we are willing to double your compensation within 1 year. \n- Health Benefits: Reimbursement for health insurance premiums.\n- Performance Bonuses: Significant rewards for exceptional contributions.\n- Upskilling Budget: Support for online professional development.\n- Flexible Work Environment: Remote-first flexibility with in-office collaboration when needed.\n- AI software licenses for faster development. \n- Food Delivery Reimbursement: Late night Swiggy/Zomato reimbursement of 2,000 INR per month.\n- Gym Reimbursement: Gym reimbursement of 4,000 INR per month.\n- Tech Setup: Budget for tech set up provided after 6 months of employment. \n- US HQ Opportunities: Top performers may have the opportunity to explore international roles within our US-based headquarters, including potential emigration opportunities, subject to availability and company needs, and after at least 2 years of employment. \n\n\nSalary Range: \n40-55 LPA\n\n\n\n\n\n₹40,00,000 - ₹55,00,000 a year40-55 LPA\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, JavaScript, PHP, Node, API, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $105,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nMumbai

About Life360\n\nLife360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app and Tile tracking devices empower members to protect the people, pets, and things they care about most with a range of services, including location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life360 serves approximately 66 million monthly active users (MAU) across more than 150 countries.\n\nLife360 delivers peace of mind and enhances everyday family life with seamless coordination for all the moments that matter, big and small. By continuing to innovate and deliver for our customers, we have become a household name and the must-have mobile-based membership for families (and those friends that basically are family). \n\nLife360 has more than 500 (and growing!) remote-first employees. For more information, please visit life360.com.\n\nLife360 is a Remote First company, which means a remote work environment will be the primary experience for all employees. All positions, unless otherwise specified, can be performed remotely (within the US and Canada) regardless of any specified location above. \nAbout The Team\n\nThe Horizons Cloud Engineering team is responsible for defining, building, and supporting the foundational cloud services that all developers at Life360 depend on. This team consists of some of the most senior and trusted engineers at Life360 who are constantly thinking about scale and performance and how it will impact the millions of customers and families that depend on our services. If you are looking to multiply your output, this is your team. \nAbout the Job\n\nYou’ll be working with a close-knit backend team of Cloud, PHP, Java, and Python engineers, all working closely to provide a best-in-class platform for developers to use. This team works closely with our Staff engineers and other teams at Life360 to ensure solutions will perform at scale. \n\nFor candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is 115,000 to 150,000 USD. For candidates based out of Canada, the salary range for this position is 125,000 to 145,000 CAD. We take into consideration an individual's background and experience in determining final salary- therefore, base pay offered may vary considerably depending on geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The compensation package includes a wide range of medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits, as well as equity.\nWhat You’ll Do\n\n\n* Work with other engineers to implement best-steps to decouple PHP monolith services into new Java microservices\n\n* Horizontally scale our PHP platform to handle another 10+ billion events per day\n\n* Work cross-functionally across teams to gain alignment on your or team's initiatives\n\n* Monitor health, suggest/drive improvements for, and deploy your own services\n\n* Maintain and improve service level objectives (SLOs)\n\n* Collaborate closely with Senior engineers to build technical specs \n\n* Help our Test Engineering team to further automate services and component validation\n\n* Create and update automation suites to enable improved automation \n\n\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\n\n\n* Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar quantitative field or the equivalent industry experience\n\n* 2+ years experience with Java/Spring Boot\n\n* 1+ years experience with relational or non-relational databases such as MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc\n\n* Understand microservices and their architectures\n\n* Understand how to deploy and maintain systems, ideally with Kubernetes\n\n* Communicates effectively with cross-platform teammates\n\n\n\nPreferred Qualifications \n\n\n* 2+ years experience with Java (bonus for Spring Framework experience), Python, PHP, CakePHP, and queuing/stream technologies such as Kafka and NSQ\n\n* Adaptive to working across programming languages regularly \n\n* Experience working remotely, with minimal guidance\n\n* Experience working with AWS products \n\n* Experience with Docker, Kubernetes\n\n\n\nOur Benefits\n\n\n* Competitive pay and benefits\n\n* Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees). We offer supplemental plans for medical and dental for Canadian employees\n\n* 401(k) plan with company matching program in the US and RRSP with DPSP plan for Canadian employees\n\n* Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental wellness.\n\n* Flexible PTO and 12 company wide days off throughout the year\n\n* Learning & Development programs\n\n* Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment\n\n* Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle\n\n\n\nLife360 Values\n\nOur company’s mission driven culture is guided by our shared values to create a trusted work environment where you can bring your authentic self to work and make a positive difference \n\n\n* Be a Good Person - We have a team of high integrity people you can trust. \n\n* Be Direct With Respect - We communicate directly, even when it’s hard.\n\n* Members Before Metrics - We focus on building an exceptional experience for families. \n\n* High Intensity High Impact - We do whatever it takes to get the job done. \n\n\n\nOur Commitment to Diversity\n\nWe believe that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better results. Together, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees. It fuels our innovation and connects us closer to our customers and the communities we serve. We strive to create a workplace that reflects the communities we serve and where everyone feels empowered to bring their authentic best selves to work.\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Life360. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any legally protected status.  \n\nWe encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. We believe that a diversity of perspectives and experiences create a foundation for the best ideas. Come join us in building something meaningful. Even if you don’t meet 100% of the below qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying!\n \n\n#LI-Remote\n\n____________________________________________________________________________\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Java, Cloud, PHP, Mobile, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $105,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan Mateo, California, United States